After using the idea of mixing romanticism with abstraction in my own work, it didn’t take long before I was introduced to J.M.W Turner, who is a romantic English painter, and was alive in the late 1700’s, early 1800’s. His landscapes paintings of rural England have there own stunning style, which seduces the viewer because of the monochrome style; the whole painting will be different shades of yellow, with a tiny splash of a blue or a brown to really capture the scene that’s been washed with the evening sunlight. The paintings capture so much movement with the big, washed paint strokes. He mixes unbelievable detail with a sweeping wash of abstract sky or land.


In my own work recently, I have been really interested in using LCD projectors and experimenting with interacting with the imagery that is projected on the wall. The images I have been using are from old black and white films that are well known, classic, romantic films such as Romeo and Juliet, Casablanca and It’s a wonderful life etc. I have been using two projectors to project old black and white films onto the same place, so they become abstracted within one another. When put on a large scale, this technique of using